Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Lazarus Stewart: Colonial Custer

"Massacre of the Indians at Lancaster by the Paxton Boys in 1763." (John Wimer, 1841)
(Wikipedia) - Captain Lazarus Stewart (July 4, 1734 – July 3, 1778) was an 18th century Pennsylvanian frontiersman and leader of the Paxton Boys. He achieved notoriety by leading the massacre of the Susquehannocks in 1763, and was a prominent military commander — on the Yankee side — in the Pennamite Wars. He met his death in battle with the Loyalists and Iroquois at the Wyoming Massacre, in an attack precipitated by his own rashness. Continued

"Massacre of Wyoming"

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